I teach the following courses on rotation:
Indigenous Musics
This course introduces students to a selection of Indigenous musics and musicians, considering ways in which music articulates and shapes issues of tradition and modernity; place and belonging; protest and resistance; power and intercultural relations; and sovereignty, resurgence, refusal, and self-determination.
World Musics
This course uses examples from selected cultures/geographical locations to examine the fundamental place of music in human society. In addition to developing key skills in the study of music, such as critical listening and (musical, contextual, and critical) analysis, this course introduces students to the concepts that have shaped ethnomusicological scholarship and to current directions within the discipline. I look forward to guiding you through the course.
Feminism, Gender, Sovereignty (Graduate-Level Seminar)
This course engages with feminism’s theoretical genealogies beginning with an introduction to contemporary Indigenous feminism, and then moving through some of the historic and contemporary texts that have shaped feminist practice and scholarship locally and globally. We will consider the diverse analytic frameworks introduced by a select cross section of authors, many of whom revisit now seemingly “dated” theories of feminism’s “second wave” or redress and revise the work of influential male scholars such as Franz Fanon, Edward Said, and Michel Foucault. In so doing, the course actively engages with and challenges the notion of a “canon” of concepts, writings, and authors. It also aims to emphasize the history and value of multiple, divergent perspectives within feminist scholarship, and the fluid and contested terrain of feminism which is, necessarily, perpetually unsettled.